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Unlock Your Creativity with Photopea

Unlock Your Creativity with Photopea

By : Michael Burton
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Unlock Your Creativity with Photopea

Unlock Your Creativity with Photopea

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By: Michael Burton
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Overview of this book

Photopea is a comprehensive image and photo editing design tool that provides essential features and capabilities comparable to Adobe Photoshop. This book covers the latest version of Photopea, featuring step-by-step instructions for image editing, improving and enhancing designs with text and effects, and creating eye-catching projects for print and the web. The first part of this book will teach you how to navigate the workspace, use the best tools for specific tasks and projects, and make perfect selections. You’ll also discover how to remove backgrounds, merge and/or add objects, and adjust colors to create impressive images. Later, you’ll explore layers and compositing techniques, and get hands on with retouching images like a pro. The book will demonstrate how to create collages and use brushes, color wheels, and swatches for drawing and painting. You’ll also learn how to apply impressive text to images to create posters, flyers, and logos. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to retouch, paint, enhance, and manipulate images; how to use templates provided by Photopea; and finally, how to apply your skills to projects.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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To get the most out of this book
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Download the exercise files
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Conventions used
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Get in touch
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Part 1: Getting Started With Photopea
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Part 1: Getting Started With Photopea
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Chapter 1: Taking Your Design and Editing to the Next Level with Photopea
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Chapter 1: Taking Your Design and Editing to the Next Level with Photopea
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Technical requirements
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Installing Photopea and Setting up an Account
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Free versus Premium Version
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Raster and Vector Images Explained
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RGB versus CMYK Color Modes
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Summary
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Chapter 2: Creating and Working with Image Editing Documents in Photopea
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Chapter 2: Creating and Working with Image Editing Documents in Photopea
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Creating and saving new documents and templates
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Opening existing documents for projects
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Saving documents in Photopea
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Image size and resizing Documents (canvases) for projects
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Guides, rulers, grids, and snapping
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Utilizing artboards
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Summary
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Chapter 3: Navigating and Utilizing the Workspace
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Chapter 3: Navigating and Utilizing the Workspace
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Understanding the workspace
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Understanding the toolbar
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Understanding the sidebar
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Exploring the main area
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Chapter 4: Layer Management: Creating, Organizing, and Applying Advanced Features
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Chapter 4: Layer Management: Creating, Organizing, and Applying Advanced Features
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Understanding layers
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Organizing layers
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Applying masks to layers
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Layer styles (also called layer effects)
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Chapter 5: Understanding Selection Fundamentals
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Chapter 5: Understanding Selection Fundamentals
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Making selections
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More on the Magic Wand tool
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Advanced selection techniques
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Refining edges
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Working with channels
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Part 2: Digital Imaging, Design Techniques, and Other Software
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Part 2: Digital Imaging, Design Techniques, and Other Software
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Chapter 6: Color Theory and Application
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Chapter 6: Color Theory and Application
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Color theory basics
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Working with color panels
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Using swatches and the color picker
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Working with color spaces
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Chapter 7: Using and Creating Brushes
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Chapter 7: Using and Creating Brushes
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Exploring and accessing the brushes
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Using the default brushes
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Editing default brushes with custom Dynamics
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Creating custom brushes from images
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Chapter 8: Photo Retouching Techniques
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Chapter 8: Photo Retouching Techniques
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Touching up a portrait
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Adjusting and adding hair
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Restoring an old photo
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Adjusting an image in RAW format
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Chapter 9: Exploring Advanced Image Compositing Techniques
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Chapter 9: Exploring Advanced Image Compositing Techniques
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What are Image Composites?
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Preparation for creating composites
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Applying skills to an Image Composite – Lunch on Table
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Applying skills to an Image Composite – Man Walking
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Chapter 10: Text Fundamentals and Styling in Photopea
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Chapter 10: Text Fundamentals and Styling in Photopea
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Introduction to typography
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Working with the type tool and text styles
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Creating artistic, shaped, and warped text, and more
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Chapter 11: Pre-Designed Templates, Extra Effects, and Features Overview
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Chapter 11: Pre-Designed Templates, Extra Effects, and Features Overview
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How to open and edit templates
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Creating, opening, and exporting animations
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Creating an animation in Photopea
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How to vectorize a Bitmap image
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Part 3: Drawing Figures, Creating a Logo, and Other Features
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Part 3: Drawing Figures, Creating a Logo, and Other Features
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Chapter 12: Advanced Color Techniques
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Chapter 12: Advanced Color Techniques
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Adding color to a black and white image
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Replacing a particular color
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Using the color replacement brush tool
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Modifying channels
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Chapter 13: Bonus: How to Draw and Paint a Figure and Character
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Chapter 13: Bonus: How to Draw and Paint a Figure and Character
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Getting started with drawing and painting
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Sketching and developing a character design
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Grayscale study and adding color to your character
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Chapter 14: Bonus: How to Create a Logo
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Chapter 14: Bonus: How to Create a Logo
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What is a logo?
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Sketching out rough ideas and brainstorming
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Creating a black and white logo
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Exploring colors and fonts
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Chapter 15: Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices
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Chapter 15: Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices
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The vanishing point filter
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Using layer comps
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Exporting layers
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Understanding and using smart objects
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Creating a portfolio for a career
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Index
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Index
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Free versus Premium Version

The free version of Photopea has pop-up ads, but a recent update allows you to hide them in Google Chrome Extensions called, Remove Ads from Photopea. The free version includes most features and 0.5 GB of cloud storage. That’s great news for new users to get started risk-free and good for experienced users on a budget.

To remove ads from Photopea, do the following:

  1. Open GOOGLE Chrome and type in https://chromewebstore.google.com/.
  2. Type Photopea in the Search extensions and themes bar, and select the Remove Ads from Photopea extension.
  3. Next, click on the Add to Chrome button, located on the right side. (see Figure 1.4):
Figure 1.4 – Add the Remove Ads from Photopea Extension

Figure 1.4 – Add the Remove Ads from Photopea Extension

Important note

The remove ads feature only works in the Free Version. If you pay for the Premium version, you have to go back in the Chrome Extensions to Disable it. Otherwise, the Premium Version will act buggy and not display right. This is because the Premium version has a built in extension that removes the ads already.

The premium version is $5/month with 5GB cloud storage, comes with no ads, quick email support, saves more of the steps you made working in the document (in the history tab), and now includes the new AI Selection Feature that we will cover in Chapter 15, Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices.

Important note

The History Tab allows you to revisit and recover an original action you made.

I will be sticking with the free version of Photopea for a couple of reasons.

  1. I can hide the Ads in the Google Chrome Extensions. Go to the top right of the Google Chrome Browser, click on the 3 small dots, scroll halfway down, select Extensions, Photopea, Remove the Ads and Hide the ads on Photopea). (see Figure 1.5).
Figure 1.5 – Remove or Disable the Remove Ads from Photopea Extension

Figure 1.5 – Remove or Disable the Remove Ads from Photopea Extension

  1. I will use my personal external hard drives along with the free Google cloud drive to back up my files.

Next, we will take a look at Raster and Vector Images, how they differ, and will learn to choose the best format for working on projects and jobs.

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